On 26/09/06, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not
because they felt that the foundation apeprently felt that every wiki
should have at least one chapter,
I thought the reason for chapters was because tax deductibility tends
to work in units of national borders - if UK donors could get
deductibility for donations to the WMF in the US, I doubt anyone would
have bothered with Wikimedia UK. Presumably I am well behind on
current thinking.
This is one of the reasons, but there are many others. For example,
for us the main reason to create a chapter was to have a bank account
which is usefull for organising meetings. You can for example pay for
a lecture theatre or book a hotel rooms in advance. The second reason
was to have a some sort of quasi-formal representation of Wikipedia
community in Poland, with whom journalists and goverment officials may
speak.
--
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz